English Dictionary

poise

IPA（発音記号）

/pɔɪz/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. / Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation. / Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body. / A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

日本語の意味

バランス、均衡、安定状態 / 落ち着き、冷静さ、余裕 / 風格、立ち居振る舞い、身だしなみ / 宙に浮いた状態、浮遊状態

She maintained her poise on the narrow beam, moving carefully to avoid falling.

細い平均台の上で彼女はバランスを保ち、落ちないように慎重に動いた。

意味（1）

A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise

意味（2）

Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

意味（3）

Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

意味（4）

A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

意味（5）

(physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

意味（6）

(obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.

as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]

意味（7）

The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

意味（8）

That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

As for Hyperboles, I will neither quote Lucan, nor Statius, Men of an unbounded imagination, but who often wanted the Poyze of Judgement.

poises （ plural ）